ViMax — Open-Source Agentic Video Generation Framework

ViMax is an advanced open-source, multi-agent video generation framework created by HKUDS. It transforms stories, prompts, and scripts into coherent, multi-shot videos—handling everything from scriptwriting and shot planning to character consistency and final rendering.

Perfect for AI creators, developers, storytellers, and anyone exploring automated video production, ViMax offers a powerful end-to-end pipeline that emulates the work of a full film crew.

🌟 Key Features

🎬 Automated Script & Storyboard Generation

ViMax turns long-form text (novels, prompts, scripts) into well-structured multi-scene scripts. It preserves narrative flow, dialogue, and scene transitions.

🎥 Shot Planning & Cinematic Composition

The system plans camera angles, shot sequences, and scene flow—creating a film-like, multi-camera cinematic experience.

🧩 Character & Asset Consistency

One of the hardest problems in AI video generation is maintaining consistent characters across scenes.
ViMax solves this with:

• reference image tracking
• identity-preserving models
• background and scene coherence checks

⚡ Parallel Video Shot Generation

Generates multiple shots at the same time, enabling faster production and supporting longer videos.

✔️ Automated Quality Control

Multi-modal agents evaluate each generated frame or shot, reject inconsistent outputs, and pick the best candidates—similar to how a human director would edit.

🚀 Why Creators Love ViMax

• Storytellers: Convert written scenes or novel chapters into full videos.
• Developers: Build custom video-generation pipelines using a modular, agentic foundation.
• Teams & Studios: Produce narrative or marketing videos without traditional animation tools.
• Researchers: Explore multi-agent orchestration, consistency models, and long-form generation.

ViMax sits between simple short-clip generators and full AI filmmaking—offering structure, coherence, and automation.

📦 Project Highlights

• MIT Licensed — free for personal and commercial use
• Active development with recent commits
• 1,100+ GitHub stars showing strong community traction
• Designed for scalable, extensible agentic workflows

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/HKUDS/ViMax

🛠️ How It Works (Pipeline Overview)

1. Input: A story, prompt, or script
2. Script Agent: Breaks it into scenes and actionable segments
3. Storyboard Agent: Generates shot plans and cinematic layout
4. Reference Agent: Ensures character/background consistency
5. Video Agent: Produces the final shots (in parallel)
6. QC Agent: Validates and selects final outputs

This modular design makes it easy to customize or extend any part of the system.